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PR is likely terrified of this headline: “Google removes skin color from emoji, making white the only option”
by twobitshifter 5y ago
PR is likely terrified of this headline: “Google removes skin color from emoji, making white the only option”
- ARandomerDude 5y ago(on a white background)
- cubefox 5y agoI also think that was the reason. Although it doesn't make sense, since on dark background (unusual on paper, but otherwise not to rare nowadays with dark mode in every phone) it would be the other way round. (The problem with blobs is that they can't display male/female faces. I assume they all just look the same then.) Who is at fault here? The cowards at Google who fear a PR disaster and self-censor in advance? The extremist minority which often generates similar outrage about such pseudo issues on Twitter? Or the journalists who willingly and uncritically spread and blow such outrage out of proportion without mentioning that the original source of the outrage was just a small group of social justice activists on Twitter, not "the public"?